The problem: Cable box in living room. Ethernet to my computer, younger kid’s computer, TV setup. No worries. Wi-Fi upstairs (older kid’s computer, Kindle Fires in bedroom), no worries. Basement has terrible reception. Wife needs good reception for work.
Assume I am not drilling a hole in the ceiling to drop an ethernet cable. Take that off the table. What’s my best non-intrusive solution that doesn’t involve moving my wife’s workstation out of the basement?
If it’s a great distance across the house from the WiFi hub, you can buy inexpensive wireless repeaters for midway between. Otherwise, if it’s an insulated basement confines sort of issue, you’re doing physical modifications of some sort.
I was thinking the same thing. Some kind of signal booster would be the most effective solution if you’re not willing to drill holes.
I have a mesh system (Orbi) that works pretty well for whole house coverage. If there’s a spot in the basement that does get good coverage, then a mesh station/repeater there can help cover the rest.
Could consider a powerline Ethernet adapter. Runs the signal through the electrical lines in the house.
I’ve tried power line adapters and WiFi extenders.
I would NOT recommend either.
Get a more powerful router, set up a mesh, or a combination of the two.
I’m very glad I did. It was money well spent.
Normal ethernet is good with cable lengths of like 100 meters. (Which, for those using freedom units, is enough to go all the way around you house twice) If you don’t want to drill a hole, run a cable along the floor to a heat vent, snake it to a vent that goes down to the basement, and then run it along the floor and/or ceiling in the basement. Or just run it along the floor to the stairs, and then down to the basement. Or run the ethernet to another router that can do mesh mode and get signal to the basement.
Yeah, my family used the run it next to the vents method growing up